CDC

aid: cdc
name: CDC
description: >-
  The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) provides a suite of
  public APIs for accessing disease surveillance data, vaccination rates, health
  statistics, environmental public health tracking, and public health datasets.
  Key offerings include the CDC WONDER API for querying mortality and disease
  databases, the Open Data API powered by Socrata for thousands of datasets
  across categories such as flu vaccinations, STDs, injury, and NCHS statistics,
  the Environmental Public Health Tracking Network API for environmental health
  data, and the PHIN VADS vocabulary service for public health terminology.
type: Index
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url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/cdc/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: "2026-06-13"
modified: "2026-06-13"
specificationVersion: "0.19"
tags:
  - Public Health
  - Disease Surveillance
  - Vaccination
  - Health Statistics
  - Government
  - Open Data
  - Environmental Health
  - Mortality
  - CDC WONDER
apis:
  - name: CDC Open Data API
    description: >-
      Repository of all available CDC datasets accessible via the Socrata Open
      Data API (SODA). Covers categories including administrative data,
      biomonitoring, child vaccinations, flu vaccinations, health statistics,
      injury and violence, NCHS data, NNDSS reportable disease surveillance,
      pregnancy and vaccination, STDs, smoking and tobacco use, traumatic brain
      injury, and web metrics. Supports JSON, XML, and CSV response formats.
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    humanURL: https://data.cdc.gov
    baseURL: https://data.cdc.gov/resource
    tags:
      - Open Data
      - Health Statistics
      - Disease Surveillance
      - Vaccination
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://dev.socrata.com/docs/endpoints.html
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: https://data.cdc.gov/api/docs
    contact:
      - FN: CDC Open Data
        email: [email protected]

  - name: CDC WONDER API
    description: >-
      The CDC WONDER (Wide-ranging Online Data for Epidemiologic Research) API
      enables automated data queries in XML format over HTTP. Supports access
      to online databases covering mortality, natality, cancer statistics,
      AIDS/HIV, tuberculosis, sexually transmitted diseases, and environmental
      health data. Requests are HTTP POST to the WONDER controller endpoint
      with XML parameters; responses are returned as XML.
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    humanURL: https://wonder.cdc.gov
    baseURL: https://wonder.cdc.gov/controller/datarequest
    tags:
      - Disease Surveillance
      - Mortality
      - Epidemiology
      - Public Health
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://wonder.cdc.gov/wonder/help/WONDER-API.html
    contact:
      - FN: CDC WONDER
        email: [email protected]

  - name: CDC Environmental Public Health Tracking Network API
    description: >-
      Allows querying of data from the CDC National Environmental Public Health
      Tracking Network. Returns JSON-formatted responses covering environmental
      health indicators such as air quality, water quality, climate data, and
      their associations with health outcomes across the United States.
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    humanURL: https://ephtracking.cdc.gov
    baseURL: https://ephtracking.cdc.gov/apigateway/api/v1
    tags:
      - Environmental Health
      - Air Quality
      - Water Quality
      - Climate
      - Public Health
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://ephtracking.cdc.gov/apihelp
    contact:
      - FN: CDC Tracking
        email: [email protected]

  - name: CDC Content Syndication API
    description: >-
      Enables CDC to offer web content to other sites and applications. Provides
      structured access to CDC health content including articles, health topics,
      media, and tools in JSON and XML formats for syndication to third-party
      websites and public health information systems.
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    humanURL: https://tools.cdc.gov/api/docs/info.aspx
    baseURL: https://tools.cdc.gov/api/v2
    tags:
      - Content
      - Health Information
      - Syndication
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://tools.cdc.gov/api/docs/info.aspx#response
    contact:
      - FN: CDC Digital Media
        email: [email protected]

  - name: PHIN VADS API
    description: >-
      The Public Health Information Network Vocabulary Access and Distribution
      System (PHIN VADS) is a web-based enterprise vocabulary system for
      accessing, searching, and distributing vocabularies used in public health
      and clinical care practice. Provides REST access to standardized code
      sets and value sets used in public health reporting.
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    humanURL: https://phinvads.cdc.gov
    baseURL: https://phinvads.cdc.gov/vocabService/v2
    tags:
      - Vocabulary
      - Terminology
      - Standards
      - Public Health
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://phinvads.cdc.gov/vads/developersGuide.action
    contact:
      - FN: PHIN VADS Support
        email: [email protected]

  - name: DIBBs eCR Refiner API
    description: >-
      CDC DIBBS (Data Integration Building Blocks) electronic Case Reporting
      (eCR) Refiner API for managing disease reporting configurations with
      customizable code sets. Supports creating and managing reportable
      condition configurations, custom code management, eICR document
      refinement and simulation, jurisdiction audit logs, and release tracking.
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    humanURL: https://github.com/CDCgov/dibbs-ecr-refiner
    baseURL: https://github.com/CDCgov/dibbs-ecr-refiner
    tags:
      - Electronic Case Reporting
      - eCR
      - Disease Reporting
      - Public Health
      - DIBBS
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://github.com/CDCgov/dibbs-ecr-refiner
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/cdc/refs/heads/main/openapi/dibbs-ecr-refiner-openapi.json
    contact:
      - FN: CDCgov DIBBS
        url: https://github.com/CDCgov/dibbs-ecr-refiner

  - name: DIBBs Query Connector API
    description: >-
      CDC DIBBS (Data Integration Building Blocks) Query Connector API for
      executing healthcare data queries against FHIR servers using patient
      identifiers. Accepts FHIR patient resources or HL7v2 messages and
      returns matching FHIR resources from target FHIR servers.
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    humanURL: https://github.com/CDCgov/dibbs-query-connector
    baseURL: https://github.com/CDCgov/dibbs-query-connector
    tags:
      - FHIR
      - HL7
      - Healthcare Data
      - Patient Data
      - Public Health
      - DIBBS
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://github.com/CDCgov/dibbs-query-connector
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/cdc/refs/heads/main/openapi/dibbs-query-connector-openapi.yaml
    contact:
      - FN: CDCgov DIBBS
        url: https://github.com/CDCgov/dibbs-query-connector

common:
  - type: Portal
    url: https://open.cdc.gov/apis.html
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/CDCgov
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://dev.socrata.com/docs/app-tokens.html
  - type: TermsOfService
    url: https://www.cdc.gov/other/policies.html
  - type: PrivacyPolicy
    url: https://www.cdc.gov/other/privacy.html
  - type: Licensing
    url: https://www.cdc.gov/other/policies.html#linking
  - type: JsonLD
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/cdc/refs/heads/main/json-ld/apis-jsonld.json

maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: [email protected]